1st Edition

Regional Development Diversities and Disparities

By Ulrich Hilpert Copyright 2011
256 Pages
by Routledge

In identifying the key elements of regional culture that impact upon socio-economic development, this informative text concentrates on three main factors: the Socio-Industrial Culture that is concerned with the knowledge, beliefs and values associated with production. A particular contrast is drawn between the socio-industrial culture associated with Taylorist mass production and that... Read more
1. Some Introductory Remarks on Basic Assumptions, 2. Diversities and Disparities in Regional Development, 3. The Culture of Economic Development, 4. Culture, Change and Economic Development, 5. Conclusions

Biography

Ulrich Hilpert is Professor and Chair of Comparative Government at Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany.